Gas stove and range.



C.,-W. OALLA'HAN. GAS STOVE AND RANGE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1912.

1,0 7,4 5, Patented July 15, 19 13..

CHARLES W. CALLAHAN, 0F GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY.

GAS STOVE AND RANGE.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1. CHARLES GALLA- HAN. a citizen of the United States. residing at Gloucester City, in the county of Camden, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Gas Stove and Range, of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention consists of a gas stove or range whose frame or body is adapted to be connected with a wall or other suitable place in a kitchen or elsewhereso as to be folded thereagainst and lowered into operative position. means being provided for sustaining said body in the latter position.

It consists also in providing said body with means for sustaining an oven removably thereon.

It consists further in providing the body or frame of the device with a leaf adapted to cover the top plate and burners thereof forming a shelf convenient for kitchen and other purposes.

It consists further of a gas supply pipe which is connectible with and disconnectible from said oven while remaining on the body of the stove or range.

It consists further of details of construction. as will be hereinafter set forth.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied. and so it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific arrangement and organization shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a front view of a gas stove or range embodying my invention, in folded condition. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation thereof in operative condition showing an oven attached to the body of the stove or range. Fig. 4 represents a vertical section on the line mrc in Fig. 3 the gassupply pipe and the pipe to the oven being shown partly in elevation. Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the body of the stove or range partly broken away showing also the shelf thereon. Fig. 6 represents a side elevation of a detached portion. Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 21, 1912.

Patent-ed July 35, 1913. Serial No. 704.954..

'7 represents a' sectional detail View on the line z -g in Fig. 1, looking outward.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings :1 designates the frame or body of the stove or range, the same being somewhat of box form and containing the gas burners 2, and is provided with supply cocks 3 for the latter, and top plate 4 with openings 5 over said burners, said plate being broken away in Fig. 5 so as to uncover the interior of the remainder of said frame. Connected with the wall of the kitchen or other place of service are the brackets 6 whose upper ends form bearings for the gudgeons 7 which project laterally from the "sides of the top-plate 1 of the frame 1. whereby the body may be folded upwardly against said wall, as shown in Fig. 2. and lowered into operative position, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5.. In the present case. the gudgeon 7 on the right side of Fig. 1 is hollow or tubular and forms a gas conveying passage. In order to support said body in operative or horizontal position, there are connected with the sides of the same. the ways 8 on which are freely fitted the slides 9, to which are pivotally attached the upper ends of the legs 10, the lower ends of which are pivotally attached to the lower ends of the brackets 6 thus sustaining the frame, as most. clearly shown in Fig. 3, said legs and slides folding with the frame, as shown in Fig. 2. A pipe, 11, extends along the front of the frame andi top plate, and thesupply-cocks and burners are connected to the same. Said Ipipe also extends along one side of the frame and top-plate and is connected to a bore in a, bracket 11*, which carries the hollow gudgeon 7 and to which the inner end of one edge of the topplate is secured. The hollow gudgeon 7 has a flange, 12, which bears against a collar 12* upon the end of a gas-supply pipe, 13, forming a joint well known 1n this art, being used in the connections between the supplypipe of gasolene stoves and similar apparatus and needing no detail illustration nor description. Gas may be supplied to and cut ofi from the pipe 13 and consequently the pipe 11 by the cock 14 in said pipe 13, the operation of the same being apparent.

To the top of the body 1 is hinged the leaf 15 which may be lowered so as to cover the top plate 4, when the burners are not in use and so provide a shelf for kitchen and other purposes, said leaf being, however, adapted to be raised so as to expose the plate and burner for necessary purposes of cooking etc., the leaf also being foldable with the frame against the wall.

. On the sides of the body 1 are the laterally outturned flanges 16 from which may be suspended the oven 17, the latter being provided with laterally inturned flanges 18 which may slide on said flanges 16 and thus sustain the oven thereon, it being evident that the oven may be removed by drawing it outwardly on said flanges 16 when the body 1 may be raised and folded, the oven then being stowed elsewhere if so desired.

The oven is rovided with suitable shelves and contains t e gas burners 19 whose supply pipes 20 extend outside of the wall of the oven where they have attached to them the chambers 21 for the reception and mixture of as and air the same being directed to said urners 19 through said pipes 20. Apipe, 22, is connected by a knuckle-joint, 23, to the gas-supply pipe 11, and the end of said pipe 22 is provided with a tip, 24:,

which may enter either of the mixers 21,

to connect the gas supply to either the upper or lower burner. The oven is preferably divided into an upper broiling compartment, 25, and a lower roasting and baking compartment, 26, as is usual in ovens of stoves of this character. The pipe 11 is pro-. vided with a knuckle joint whereby said pipe may be raised andwith it, the pipe 22, and the latter-named pipe 22 placed in a horizontal position or nearly so whereby 'the tip 24 "of said pipe which has occupied the lower mixer 21 may be inserted in the upper mixer 21, it being not-iced that as but a small lateral motion of thepipes 11 and 22 is suficient to cause the tip to be removed from-one mixer and inserted in the other, said pipes have a slight play outwardly and inwardly or yieldingly, as it were, whereby they have the sufiic'ient motion fromand to the respective. mixer to accomplish the purpose. The pipe 22 is supplied with a cook 27 so "as to cut 0% or turn on the gas, it being evident that when the pipe 22 is drawn slightly outwardly the I tip 24 emerges from the respective mixing chamber 21, when said pipe is disconnected from the oven, and the latter may be disengaged from the body 1.

The body 1 is provided with the simmering burner 28 usual in such cases. A catch, 29, is secured to the wall tofengage the supply-pipe 11 and the cover 15, to support said parts when raised or folded upward againstthe wall as illustrated in Fig. 2. Catches 30 are provided upon the top-plate and employed to engage the sides of the bodyl for holding the latter in horizontal or operative position. The lower portion 31 of. the body 1 is made movable from the top plate 4, and is connected with the same by the hinges 32, see Fig. 5, so that said lower portion may be dropped, as shown dotted in Fig. 5, for the purpose of drainage, or cleansing, said portion when in horizontal or vertical position being engaged by the catches 130 and so retained thereat. The hinges 33 which connect the leaf 15 with the top plate of the body are most plainly shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5.

It will be seen that I produce a simple, inexpensive and practical device for the purpose intended.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is 1. In a gas stove, a body having a burner a pivotal connection with some fixed sup-' port on said body and a slide pivotally connected with the upper end of the leg, said leg and slide being foldable with the said body. 3

2. In a gas stove or range, a body having a burner therein, a mounting for said body whereby it may be turned to folded and operative positions, a way on said body, a leg adapted to have a pivotal connection with a support on a wall or elsewhere, and a slide connected with said leg and freely engageable with said way.

3. In a gas stove, rigid bearings, a body, a burner within said body, gudgeons on the said body and rotatably supported in said bearings, one of said gudgeons being hollow, a stationary gas-supply pipe, swivel connections between said gas-supply pipe and said hollow gudgeon, a pipe connecting said burner and hollow gudgeon, additional burners provided with air and gas mixers and a jointed pipe connected with the supply pipe and movable for use with either mixer.

4. In a gas stove, rigid bearings, a body, burners within said body, air and gas mixing chambers for cooperation with said burners, gudgeons on said body rotatably supported in said bearings, one of said 5. In a gas-stove, a body formed with having a tip adapted to detachably enter Ways, an oven constructed to have its top the mixing-chambers.

slide in said Ways a plurality of burners in I such oven and hsiving mixing-chambers in CHARLES CALLAHAN' Witnesses:

the side of the same, a gas-supply pipe supported upon the body, and 'a pipe mov- JOHN A. vVIEDERsHmM, ably connected to such supply-pipe and N. BUSSINGER. 

